xthexder
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- Comment on "I lost trust": Why the OpenAI team in charge of safeguarding humanity imploded 1 day ago:
Let me try putting this a different way: The machine is picking the next best word / action / chess move to output based on its past experience of the world (i.e. it’s training data). It’s not just statistics, it’s making millions of learned connections between words, and through association they start to have meaning.
Is this not exactly what the human brain does itself? Humans just have the advantage of multiple senses and having a physical agent (a body) to interact with the world.
The problem that AI has is it’s got no basis in reality. It’s like a human talking about fantasy things like unicorns. We’ve only ever experienced them as descriptions and art created from those descriptions without any basis in reality.
- Comment on We have to stop ignoring AI’s hallucination problem 1 day ago:
I have adopted philosophy that human brains might not be as special as we’ve thought, and that the untrained behavior emerging from LLMs and image generators is so similar to human behaviors that I can’t help but think of it as an underdeveloped and handicapped mind.
I hypothesis that a human brain, who’s only perception of the world is the training data force fed to it by a computer, would have all the same problems the LLMs do right now.
- Comment on We have to stop ignoring AI’s hallucination problem 2 days ago:
Because hallucinations pretty much exactly describes what’s happening? All of your suggested terms are less descriptive of what the issue is.
The definition of hallucination:
A hallucination is a perception in the absence of an external stimulus.
In the case of generative AI, it’s generating output that doesn’t match it’s training data “stimulus”. Or in other words, false statements, or “facts” that don’t exist in reality.
- Comment on Nintendo Switch Is Removing Integration for X, Formerly Twitter 1 week ago:
Classic Nintendo, making simple things like copying screenshots so complicated hacking your switch is a reasonable thing to do…
- Comment on How to opt out of the privacy nightmare that comes with new Hondas 1 week ago:
And yet the AC still blows cold in my 2004 Honda that’s not ever had the AC serviced… Sad to hear Honda reliability is going downhill.
- Comment on A YouTuber let the Cybertruck close on his finger to test the new sensor update. It didn't go well. 2 weeks ago:
The keyfob is either just a credit card sized thing, or your phone. There is no fob.
- Comment on FTC fines Razer for every cent made selling bogus “N95 grade” RGB masks 2 weeks ago:
I think you’re confusing net income with net revenue. As far as I know, net revenue is just gross revenue minus discounts and refunds. All other expenses such as cost of materials are then subtracted after that to get net income (their actual profit).
Either way, revenue represents how much money they actually received from customers.
- Comment on FTC fines Razer for every cent made selling bogus “N95 grade” RGB masks 2 weeks ago:
The article says revenue near the end. I find that a little hard to believe though, unless they sold barely any of them.
- Comment on Rabbit R1 is Just an Android App 2 weeks ago:
I’m pretty sure that story was faked by putting a separate display in the shell of a pregnancy test. They don’t even have real displays usually, let alone a full reprogrammable microcontroller
- Comment on Rabbit R1 is Just an Android App 2 weeks ago:
Note that since it’s just an Android app, there is no purpose in selling this e-waste device other than increasing the price, since it does nothing you can’t already do on your phone.
- Comment on checkmate, big geology!! 2 weeks ago:
That would definitely explain why it’s sped up if the source was a bunch of still images. I’ve seen other edits of it that look a little more like a real-time video.
- Comment on checkmate, big geology!! 2 weeks ago:
I believe that’s Mt St Helens erupting. Real footage from 1980 (though this gif is sped up).
- Comment on Applications 3 weeks ago:
Yes, but also no. We use giant prime numbers for cryptography because the more factors it has, the weaker the encryption becomes (because now there’s more than one answer for A * ? = B)
- Comment on Net neutrality is back as FCC votes to regulate internet providers 3 weeks ago:
I don’t think this has anything to do with Israel. The government moves so slow, this was probably all started back in 2021 or 2022 at the start of his term.
- Comment on Windows 11 Start menu ads are now rolling out to everyone 3 weeks ago:
As far as I know, pretty much the only anti-cheat that doesn’t work on linux is the kernel-level malware kind. I personally avoid those games at all costs regardless. That’s easy for me to say though, since I barely play any competitive games…
- Comment on If you’ve got an EV, Google Maps is about to become much more valuable | New updates address one of Americans’ top concerns about owning an electric car: finding a place to charge 4 weeks ago:
I didn’t even know this was a feature until now… It’s buried in the dropdown menu like setting an arrival time.
- Comment on Apple keeps flogging 8GB of RAM for its Mac computers but it's still a dead horse 4 weeks ago:
Windows support? What does that even mean in the context of a smartphone?
- Comment on Tesla stops cybertruck deliveries—accelerator pedal may be to blame 4 weeks ago:
I think they’re talking about steer by wire here, not throttle by wire.
- Comment on Welcome to the Golden Age of User Hostility 5 weeks ago:
Open Source Software is definitely pretty 🔥 if you ask me!
- Comment on this one goes out to the arts & humanities 5 weeks ago:
I think the way I use AI is fundamentally different from how most people draw. For me it’s much more like I’m exploring what’s possible, while making creative decisions on the direction to explore. I don’t start with anything in particular in mind. In a lot of ways it helps with the choice paralysis I get when faced with completely open-ended things like art.
- Comment on Twitter’s Clumsy Pivot to X.com Is a Gift to Phishers 5 weeks ago:
That’d be twittererox.com I think? As far as I know it’s only replacing “twitter.com”
- Comment on this one goes out to the arts & humanities 5 weeks ago:
As someone who’s absolutely terrible at drawing, but enjoys photography and generally creativity, having AI tools to generate my own art is opening up a whole different avenue for me to scratch my creative itch.
I’ve got a technical background, so figuring out the tools and modifying them for my purposes has been a lot more fun than practice drawing. - Comment on USB hubs, printers, Java, and more seemingly broken by macOS 14.4 update 1 month ago:
Microsoft Defender exists for Mac? What?
- Comment on Apex Legends streamers surprised to find aimbot and other hacks added to their PCs in the middle of major competition via anti-cheat software 1 month ago:
On Windows, EAC runs at the kernel level and basically has full access to everything about your system. It only works on linux because newer linux kernels support emulating system calls in user-space (this might not be 100% accurate, but it’s the general idea).
- Comment on Sam Bankman-Fried deserves 40-50 years in prison for FTX fraud, prosecutors say 2 months ago:
FTX had over a million users, and was advertising publicly on things like the Superbowl. It wasn’t just rich people that lost money on FTX.
- Comment on Cory Doctorow gets scammed 2 months ago:
Depending on the credit card system used, there’s various levels of fraud detection. Some stores use a point-of-sale system for in-person transactions, and those generally don’t need the CVV code because you’re supposed to have the physical card. It doesn’t stop some businesses from using the system incorrectly, allowing them to charge a card without a billing address or security code.
This is part of why credit card signatures are basically useless compared to a pin that’s required for all in-person transactions.
- Comment on Nissan To Deactivate Key Features From Early EVs 2 months ago:
You don’t need Internet to put charging on an hourly schedule. I’ve never heard of any EVs doing actual smart communicating with power stations to distribute load, it’s all manual and up to the car owner to charge during off-peak hours.
Please direct me to any EVs that actually do this though, since it sounds nice.
- Comment on Nissan To Deactivate Key Features From Early EVs 2 months ago:
Is that even a feature that exists? For home charging you can do it whenever you want without internet, and for paid chargers they’ll have their own Internet connection anyway.
- Comment on Why Charging Your Gadgets Over 80% Is Such a Bad Idea | iFixit News 2 months ago:
This is extremely normal for any phones more than a couple years old. Wifi / cell network polling for messages uses a lot of battery, and I only remember my phone getting smarter about it around 2019? (Most phones now will detect you’re inactive and poll network much less frequently overnight for example)
- Comment on ‘It went nuts’: Thousands join UK parents calling for smartphone-free childhood 2 months ago:
“Pay no attention to Wimp Lo, we purposely trained him wrong… as a joke.”